The widow of the indebted prophet sought divine intervention to break
the strangle hold of debt in their lives. She did not accept it as the norm
that her two sons would go into debt servitude on account of her husband’s
indebtedness to the impatient creditor. God intervened immediately and their
family history of indebtedness changed to that of financial abundance as God
speaking through the prophet Elisha instructed her and her sons on how to make
money. So rather than beg and borrow; which was their earlier way of life; they
learnt to generate and make money; paid off their debts and had plenty to live
on simply because she refused to accept the negative circumstances of
indebtedness and debt servitude as a way
of life.
Beloved, you can change a negative family history if you will simply
ask God for divine intervention as Jabez and this great woman did. You can also
be free of debilitating ailments if you would simply ask the Great Physician to
intervene in your situation. There is no ailment that He cannot cure – His
blood paid the full price for your healing and deliverance and by His stripes
you are healed. Therefore, do not allow sickness and disease to keep your life
on hold. The woman with the issue of blood had suffered untold pain,
humiliation, shame as well as .loss of resources and livelihood for twelve
years. Despite having spent her financial resources on medics without getting
any respite; she did not give up. She did not allow the ailment to keep her
life on hold. That explains why she took the bold step of faith to go see Jesus
and touch the hem of his garment. As she did so, twelve years of pain, humiliation
and unnecessary suffering disappeared. Any wonder she quickly owned up to
publicly as the one who touched Jesus.
The Syro-Phoenician woman refused to allow sickness to keep the life
of her daughter on hold and she pleaded with Jesus to show mercy despite the
fact that her race was disqualified from receiving the blessings of Abraham at
that point in time. Jesus honored her faith and her daughter was healed.
Stop procrastination. In point of fact, kill it. Choose to respond
promptly to divinely assigned tasks.
Be organized, really organized in every area of your life – mental
processes, physical processes, spiritual processes, relationships, resource
mobilization and management, social media posts and whatever else it is that
you do with your time. Organization always gives speed.
Do not neglect the gift of God in you. Activate and deploy the divine
gifts as God would have you deploy them. Do not be careless and thoughtless; or
negligent like the ostrich. Do not be timid or afraid like Timothy because you
are young. Also, do not allow social, economic, political or religious or even
marital standing limit you. Do not also allow the behavior of people limit you.
That would be one excuse too many. The wicked lazy servant put his life on hold
because he claimed that his master was a wicked man. Rather than make progress
like his colleagues did, he was stagnant and eventually retrogressed into
oblivion.
Timothy despite being young and shy activated and deployed his gifts
for divine purposes. He made great progress as a Minister of God; presiding
over the Church in Ephesus.
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